TOKYO: A strong earthquake hit north-eastern Japan yesterday morning, just hours after an earlier temblor, injuring more than 200 people and causing landslides and blackouts, police said.
But there were no reported fatalities from the earthquake, centred in Miyagi prefecture, and had an estimated magnitude of 6.2 on the Richter scale. Weaker aftershocks shook the region repeatedly.
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